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The Blackbaud FE NXT ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT account data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Blackbaud FE NXT data like you would a database and access data from Accounts, Budgets, Projects, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Blackbaud FE NXT Reporting and Star Schemas in OBIEE


Create a star schema that shows perspectives on Blackbaud FE NXT facts in real time.

The CData ODBC Driver for Blackbaud FE NXT is a standard database driver that can integrate real-time access to Blackbaud FE NXT data into your data warehouse or directly into your reporting tool. This article shows how to bypass the data warehouse and import operational Blackbaud FE NXT data into Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE).

See the knowledge base for ODBC integrations with ETL tools like Informatica PowerCenter. For an ETL solution into Oracle Warehouse Builder, use the driver with the Oracle ODBC Gateway to Access Blackbaud FE NXT Data as a Remote Oracle Database.

Connect to Blackbaud FE NXT as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, you will need to create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties.

See the Getting Started guide in the CData driver documentation for more information.

When you configure the DSN, you may also want to set the Max Rows connection property. This will limit the number of rows returned, which is especially helpful for improving performance when designing reports and visualizations.

Import Blackbaud FE NXT Metadata

Follow the steps below to use the OBIEE Client Tools to import Blackbaud FE NXT metadata into an OBIEE repository. You can then integrate Blackbaud FE NXT data into your business models.

  1. Open the Administration Tool and click File -> New Repository.

  2. In the Connection Type menu, select ODBC 3.5 and select the CData DSN.
  3. Select the metadata types you want to import under the Relational Sources option and then select Blackbaud FE NXT tables.
You can now create star schemas based on Blackbaud FE NXT tables: